Boston's 1st Annual Food Truck Festival

Citysearch Boston sponsored Boston's 1st Annual Food Truck Festival at SoWa Sunday August 8, 2010 at 500 Harrison Avenue from 10am - 4pm.

According to the official Facebook page:

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speed's hot dogs
m&m ribs
lincoln street coffee
dragon mobile discotaza chococycle
south end pita
boston frosty
fillbelly's
cupcakory
herrera's mexican grill
food truck nationequal exchange coffee trike
grillo's pickles
the sausage guy
roxy's grilled cheese
b. goodtrolley dogs

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Well, if I won't go to Newmarket Square, when M&M Ribs and Speeds come towards me, I really should go and pay them a visit!

Our little group headed out to the Food Truck Festival shortly before 1pm to be greeted by a large crowd on the sidewalk. A line to enter the festival? Nope, turns out it was the end of the line to the Speed's truck. Whoa! This did not bode well...

We rushed to the end of the shorter (slightly) line for M&M Ribs, pausing only to wash hands at these cool stand alone foot powered sinks, and waited, and waited, and hardly moving... But with the help of some friends, we managed to obtain two beef briskets (they were out of chicken, ribs, and starting to run out of sides...), sweet cinnamony sweet potatoes, collard greens, and reminiscent of porridge (high liquid ratio) rice & beans to share.

By the time we finished our 'bounty' the Cupcakery line was non-existent, so I figured that was done for, but the Speed's line was still impressive.

We did get a taste of a few samples (Nantucket Wild Gourmet & Smokehouse - I liked the scallop spread more than the salty smoked salmon spread; Pestos with Panache - try the Gorgonzola version!) before we finally decided we didn't want to wait for Speed's today, and maybe we'll just have to make a special outing out to Newmarket Square on a Saturday...